Translation from Spanish
On this occasion, the Lord desires to clarify some things for His people regarding this passage:
[1 Corinthians 12:27-30] Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
My little ones, says the Lord, many of you are confused, asking for pears from an apple tree or almonds from a walnut tree. Little ones, you need to understand that just as the human body is made up of many members and organs, each with its own function, so too are you different, and must serve in different ways.
Many of you are asking arms to work as if they were legs, eyes to speak as if they were mouths, noses to do the work of the tongue, says the Lord, and you don’t understand that you won’t find what you seek if the member you turn to does not have the ability to give you what you need.
Many of you ask pastors to function as prophets, when they are only pastors and not prophets, says the Lord, and some of you ask evangelists to shepherd you, when I have not called them to shepherd. You need to discern which pillar you must hold on to, says the Lord, and cling to those posts I have placed in My temple, which is My house.
Noelia: Now the Lord shows me a person walking inside a heavenly temple, searching for a chest of treasures, knowing it holds great value and that their life will forever change if they find it. This person doesn’t simply sit and wait for the chest to appear miraculously, but walks through the temple, searches everywhere, knocks on every door, enters every room, and asks those who dwell in the temple if they’ve seen it.
Little ones, says the Lord, this is how you must act. What you need, you must desire it and seek it by land, sea, and sky until you find it. But many of you are not like this. Some sit with their arms crossed, waiting for these things to appear magically, while others go to sleep with the illusion that when they wake up, these things will appear out of nowhere.
The kingdom of heaven does not work that way, says the Lord. Even though heavenly things are given by grace, I expect you to be like that person who desperately seeks the treasure and does not remain comfortably in one place, without moving.
[Matthew 13:44] Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Do not be complacent, says the Lord. Do not remain like paralytics who won’t move their legs, says the Lord, or like paraplegics who won’t move their arms, or like the blind who won’t even open their eyes to see what they need. Many times, not only do you refuse to do anything to seek what you need, but you won’t even open your eyes to see what it is you truly need.
Little ones, be diligent, says the Lord, for even though it’s true there is much need in My temple, even though My house is full of people with all kinds of needs, it is also true that you are like customers who don’t want to pay for the products sold in the store.
You are like patients who, when they visit the doctor, do not follow the treatment he prescribes, says the Lord, and then blame the doctor for still being sick. But the fault is yours for being negligent and for not obeying what the doctor tells you to do in order to be healed and delivered from your sickness.
The way you treat your earthly doctors, you treat Me, says the Lord. The way you are with your lawyers, you are with Me as well.
When you have a legal problem, you go and ask a lawyer what to do. But when the lawyer explains the process and tells you the fee, you say, “No, no, no, that’s too expensive. I can’t do that paperwork,” or you say, “No, no, no, that’s too complicated and takes too long. I’d rather not do it. I’d rather take the hit than go through this process.” Others say, “I don’t want to wait,” “I’m not ready to face this lawsuit,” or “I don’t want trouble.”
You come up with all kinds of reasons and excuses, says the Lord, and many times those excuses have no real foundation. Then, when more suffering comes, part of the responsibility is yours.
The way you deal with your lawyers is the way you deal with Me. The way you are with your husbands, that’s how you treat Me, says the Lord. The way you treat your neighbors, that’s the relationship you have with your Creator. As you are here below, so you are above.
You need to understand that if you don’t know how to be faithful with what you can see, with the situations of daily life, with the little you have on this earth, says the Lord, how much less will you be faithful with heavenly things? The way you act with what is close to you is the way you act with what is far away. The way you show yourself in your daily walk is the way you are with spiritual things. You are irresponsible.
This is a call to rise up and seek what you need, says the Lord, but you must look for it where you know you can find it. Many of you ask your pastors for prophetic words, when they are only pastors and not prophets, while others want the prophets they listen to to shepherd them, when not all prophets are called to be pastors.
There are also evangelists who are shepherding without being called to shepherd, says the Lord, and pastors who act like apostles when they are not, or not yet, because there are those who have more than one of the five ministries mentioned in Ephesians 4. A person may have just one of these five ministries, or two, or three, or four, or even all five, as the Lord Jesus had.
[Ephesians 4:11-12] And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ
Noelia: The Holy Spirit is bringing Paul to my mind now as an example, who had different ministries.
[1 Timothy 2:7] Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
You need to understand and discern what a person’s calling is, says the Lord, because it can happen that a pastor says he is a prophet and he is not, or a prophet says he is a pastor and he is not. Don’t look at what someone claims to be, but at their testimony and the fruit they bear, because the Bible says you will know them by their fruit.
There are trees that are apple trees and try to be orange trees, and no matter how hard they try to produce oranges, they will never be able to, because they were created as apple trees, not orange trees.
That’s what you need to evaluate: weighing on the scale of the Word the fruit a person bears, and watching if they move in the anointing or in the flesh, if they flow in the way or are forcing themselves to be something they are not.
Many in My house take for themselves titles I haven’t given them, says the Lord, but that’s not the only problem these days. A problem is also when the sheep try to find everything in a single source, and since that source is not planted to give the water you need, then there are conflicts.
Little ones, says the Lord, you need to look to the other pillars of My house to meet the needs you have. If you have someone as the shepherd of your life and that person is not a prophet or a teacher, then you need to seek out other pillars who are prophets or teachers, because only the one called to be a teacher of the Word has true authority to teach the Word by the Holy Spirit and under the anointing I have given.
There are pastors who have the gift of teaching, but they are not teachers of the Word, says the Lord, and there are pastors who can prophesy, who have the gift of prophecy, but they are not prophets. There are prophets with much revelation, some even performing miracles and healings, but they are not called to evangelize as an evangelist does, because the evangelist has a special anointing for that task.
You are confused, says the Lord, and you don’t understand that having one of the five ministries is one thing, and another thing is having the gifts that the Holy Spirit gives to those with ministries or not, as He chooses. Every sheep must know where to find the food it needs.
You don’t go to the dentist if you have a blood disorder, or to the eye doctor if you have a lung problem, says the Lord. You don’t buy eggs at a produce shop, or medicine at a hardware store. And even though some supermarkets are more complete and others are more limited, that doesn’t mean some are good and others bad; it simply means each one has different strengths and limitations.
Sometimes you’re asking for pears from an elm tree, not realizing you’re pressuring certain ministers to give you bread they cannot bake.
[James 3:12] Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Noelia: When the Lord speaks of supermarkets, He’s referring to congregations. There are congregations that offer more services to the saints, and others that don’t all five pillars established, that have fewer ministries than others.
Many of you need to understand that you’re pressuring ministers to do things they cannot do, to answer questions they haven’t been called to answer, to walk in shoes I have not given them, says God. And when they don’t respond because they lack the tools, you get angry and fail to see that the pastor is not placed in the church to be everything in one; for if that were so, what need would there be for the other members of the body?
[1 Corinthians 12:20-21] But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
What’s happening today—where the pastor is treated as if he were the head of the church—is partly the congregation’s fault, for they demand that he fulfill all the roles at the same time.
Noelia: The Lord is showing me right now that many pastors are breaking under the weight, and this is also because many sheep demand more than they can give, asking them to fill roles they were not meant to fill, wearing them out until they have no time, no strength, and no desire left.
It’s a combination of factors: sometimes people demand too much, and pastors don’t discern their limits, or they’re afraid to say no, whether because of unhealed wounds, lack of understanding, or other reasons.
The Lord says that if you have a prophetic need and there is no prophet in your congregation, seek elsewhere for the answer to that need which only a prophet can meet. With this, the Lord is not saying you must change churches, because all ministers are members of the same body of Christ.
Stop demanding of My servants to be what they are not, says the Lord, and stop trying to be what I have not called you to be. Learn what the functions of each of the ministries described in Scripture are, for not all are apostles, not all are prophets, not all have an evangelistic ministry, and not all are pastors or teachers.
There are teachers who can be pastors, pastors who can be teachers, and apostles who may walk in all five ministries. But not everyone operates in the same way, even if they may have the same ministries as others.
Noelia: The Lord is now answering questions you had in you mind, and He is also asking me to clarify what my function is within the body, because I had been praying about if I needed to speak on this.
The Lord has called me to be a prophetic voice to the nations. He has called me to speak on His behalf to nations, to groups, and to individuals, and one of my tasks is to instruct the people so they may learn and practice how to discern God’s voice and how to understand the ways He speaks.
My ministry is a prophetic ministry. Here you won’t find pastoral food or teachings of the Word, because the Lord hasn’t given me authority for that. Here you will sometimes find prophetic teachings, but when I teach, it’s because the Holy Spirit is prophetically telling me what to speak. But you won’t find a teacher, a pastor, or an evangelist here. And even though the Lord does send me on apostolic assignments, you won’t find someone with the authority or the anointing of an apostle.
I am a mouthpiece of God, and you need to understand that this is what you will find here: prophetic messages, things the Lord wants to speak to His people, and prophetic teachings, where the Lord is the One teaching through me and I simply repeat what He tells me.
You need to understand that the pastures you will find in this field are prophetic pastures. It’s the spirit of prophecy you will discern moving through this ministry. So don’t come here looking for answers from a teacher, a pastor, or an evangelist. Here, you will find the voice of God. Here, you will find the Lord’s answers when He chooses to give them.
You don’t go to an accountant to ask something you should ask a lawyer, or to a lawyer to have them do the accounting for your business or your home, says the Lord. It’s the same within the body of Christ. If you need deliverance, for example, you need to discern who has a special anointing for deliverance, and not just ask any brother to pray for you.
Discern, little ones, says the Lord, for if you go knocking on a door that is closed, it simply won’t open, and you’ll think I’m the One refusing to open the door. But you don’t understand that many times you are knocking on doors you shouldn’t be knocking on. Discern well, and seek what you need to eat where it is offered.
Noelia: This is a metaphor. If you want to buy meat, you go to a butcher shop. If you want to buy clothes, you go to a clothing store. But you could also find clothes in a supermarket or a general store.
This metaphor means there are churches where people have the gift of prophecy, but not the ministry of a prophet. You might find a place where there’s a bit of everything, but it will never be the same as going to someone who is truly specialized in a specific area.
Many of you are asking in your hearts, “So, how do I know who I should ask?” It’s not just by the fruit, as the Lord has said before. You have the Holy Spirit and can ask the Lord who you should consult or where you should go to have your needs met.
Be careful, says the Lord, because many of you call yourselves something you are not, and are using human effort to operate in a ministry you don’t have, to flow under an oil I never poured on your heads, and there you can make a very serious mistake. Be careful, says the Lord.
Noelia: At the beginning of my ministry, when I was still discovering who I was and didn’t really understand my place in the body of Christ, I thought I had to teach whatever seemed right to me, in addition to prophesying, and the Lord corrected me several times, until I understood that my role was to speak on behalf of God.
Even now, ideas still come to me from time to time, and when I go to pray in my secret place, God the Father says to me, “I have called you to be My mouth. I want you to speak on My behalf. I want you to be My prophetic mouth. I want you to say what I want to say. If you keep walking under the anointing I have given you, you will have My protection, you will bear witness to that anointing, and the fruits of walking under that anointing will be seen.
“But if you turn from that path and walk by the flesh and not by the Spirit, doing what seems right to you—even if at times you may do it well and without mistakes—you won’t fulfill what I have called you to do. You will be wandering, and there will be no guarantee of My protection, for you will be going in your own strength and not by My Spirit.”
It is very important that you keep your intimacy, your prayer, and your connection with the Holy Spirit, asking again and again, “Lord, what do You want me to do today? Lord, what are You sending me to do, if You are sending me to something? What must I do?,” and not go out on your own.
Now I see many women teaching the Word when God never called them to do so. I also see people who think that just because the Lord placed them in a certain ministry, they can meet all the needs of the people. But this can bring tragic consequences for those people, their families, and those they minister to.
There are many evangelists God has called to open their mouths and share the good news of the Gospel, to speak of Jesus so that many souls may be saved. But sometimes that’s not enough for them. They think they’re not worth much and begin to desire to pastor those people or to study the Word in order to teach it.
I’m not saying an evangelist can’t use the Word to evangelize, but many try to walk in shoes God hasn’t given them. They end up making mistakes, going astray, wasting time, and many souls miss out on the seeds they should be sowing.
Ask the Lord, ask the Holy Spirit, and stay on the safe path. Fulfill your ministry, as Paul told Timothy. Don’t try to fulfill someone else’s ministry, and don’t require someone to take up a ministry the Lord hasn’t called them to.
Just as there are different medical specialties in a hospital, so it is in the church. If you wouldn’t ask a bone specialist to heal your throat, why ask your pastor to give you a word God hasn’t given him? Why ask someone God hasn’t appointed as a teacher to explain a Bible passage to you if he doesn’t have the keys to open that lock?
Don’t pressure someone who doesn’t have what you need, don’t demand that someone be something they’re not, and don’t try to take positions the Master hasn’t appointed you to, says the Lord.
Noelia: Just as Jesus never stepped into a role that wasn’t His, even less should we put on a suit that doesn’t belong to us.
[Luke 12:13-14] And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
The Lord shows me that some of you dream you’re wearing clothes that are too big, or shoes that don’t fit. Sometimes this means you’re trying to walk in something where God hasn’t called you, or you want to wear a spiritual garment that was never given to you.
Many of you ask in your hearts: “And what am I? What is my function? What role should I have?” The answer is that first you must build yourselves up, learn spiritual things, feed on the Word, grow, mature, and prepare, so that God can call you to do something.
But many are just waiting for a call from their leaders, says the Lord, waiting for them to place you in some role within the congregation, instead of waiting for My call first, and then the call of your leaders.
No one is placed on a podium unless I am the One who put them there, says the Lord, and you need to discern when someone is preaching without authority, without power, and without anointing, and not feed that fictitious ministry invented by men.
Stay on the path I have marked out for your lives, says the Lord. Do not stray or turn aside. The key is to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit first, and not that of men. Men inspired by the Holy Spirit have the role of confirming the calling I have given you, says God.
Be faithful to Me, says the Lord, not to your own desires, nor to others. Ask Me where you can find the food you need. Be wise, be prudent, and get moving to find what you need. Stop demanding that My ministers feed you what you think you need. Stop insisting they do more than they are able.
Many of you are demanding with these ministers and think that because they have a spiritual office, you have the right to demand that they give you an answer as soon as you want, in the way you want, and for as long as you want, says the Lord.
But the one who has the anointing to teach knows when to teach, how much to teach, and whom to teach. And the one who has the anointing to prophesy and is called to prophesy has the clarity to know whom to prophesy to, when to prophesy, how to prophesy, and how far to prophesy.
Many of you are angry because you have consulted a prophet, and the prophet may have told you there is no word from the Lord, or because the prophet has answered others but not you, says the Lord. You are angry because the minister you consulted gave you a brief answer, because your pastors didn’t give you an appointment, because the teachers did not teach you what you wanted to know, and it’s not always due to negligence on the part of the ministers, but because the minister has discerned that this was My will.
Other times, it’s because you have not asked Me and have gone your own way, without My counsel, says God. There are things I want to give you directly from My hand and not through them, but you have become dependent on men instead of Me.
There is deliverance you will receive directly from My Holy Spirit, says the Lord, without the intervention of any man. There is healing you will receive directly from My source and not through them. There are answers you are waiting for that you don’t need to seek from anyone else, but from Me.
Discern well and understand the time, the place, the person, the source, says the Lord. Discern and repent of being angry with them, of being demanding, of pressuring them, and of not seeking Me first.
Repent, those who have called yourselves something you are not, something I never called you to be. Repent, those who have operated in things I never called you to do. Repent of putting on a suit you didn’t take from My wardrobe, says the Lord. Repent of pretending, for many of you have learned and indoctrinated yourselves to be something you are not in reality.
Noelia: This passage comes to mind:
[James 3:1] My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Take this passage to heart, says the Lord, for I will demand an account. I will call you to answer for what you did and for what you left undone. I will hold to account both those I called to do something and did not do it, and those who did what I never called them to do.
Do not underestimate the roles you consider minor, says the Lord. Do not belittle yourselves for what I have called you to do, because all tasks are important. What matters is answering the call. What matters is walking the path I have set before you. What matters is clothing yourselves in the garments I have given you.
[1 Corinthians 12:22-23] Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: and those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
Noelia: The Lord tells me that some of you need to be repositioned, because you are sitting at a desk that doesn’t belong to you—speaking in terms of work in the kingdom of heaven. You need to leave those positions and return to ask the Master what part is truly yours and what you are meant to do, because there are pieces of the puzzle that are out of place, and in this way the puzzle of the functions of the body of Christ cannot be completed.
If God has not called you, you need to leave where you are, be repositioned, and fit into the place assigned to you. And there you will find the fullness you have been missing. You will no longer be as weary as you are now, for you have been going in your own strength, and you will not feel such a heavy burden. You will not make as many mistakes, and you will bear the fruit your hearts long to bear.
But for others, it’s not the time yet. You need to wait. You need to be patient. You need to prepare.
The Spirit brings this verse to my mind now:
[1 Corinthians 3:6] I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
Some plant, others water, others prune the young plants, and others fertilize the soil. Each one must find their true identity and recognize, through the discernment of the Holy Spirit, the identity of the person before them.
The Lord says you need to learn to say no in a good way and without feeling guilty when people ask for something you simply don’t have. You need to give what you have, not what you don’t have, because otherwise you are only pretending.
The Lord says that your yes should be yes and your no should be no. If you have nothing to give, simply say no; and when you do have something, ask the Holy Spirit if you are meant to give it to that person, at that time, in that place, and in that situation.
I bless you in the mighty name of Jesus.